Sled-runner.



' F. GAUDLITZ.

SLED RUNNER.

(Application filed Feb. 9, 1901.) (No Model.)

Patented lune II, l90l-.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFEE FRITZ GAUDLITZ, OF GROFENTHAL, GERMANY.

SLED-RUNNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 67 6,360, dated June 11, 1901. Application filed February 9, 1901. Serial No. 46,682. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRITZ GAUDLITZ, a citizen of Germany, residing at Grofenthal, in the Duchy of Saxony, Meinin-gen, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sledge-Runners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and ex act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to sledge-runners adapted to be attached to the wheels and running-gear of carriages or Wagons, the object of the invention being to provide an improved type of runners which may be readily secured to or removed from the vehicles when desired and which shall be of simple, cheap, and economic construction.

With this object in view my invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a set of sledge-runners constructed in accordance with my invention applied to the wheels of a carriage. Fig. 2 is a detail view, in side elevation, on an enlargedscale,

showing part of awheel-rim and a runner applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the parts illustrated in Fig. 2 in plan. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view through a runner and one of its securing-bolts.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts.

Referring to the drawings by letters, I? b indicate angle-irons, which form the body of the runners the upright portions of which are lined inside with felt, as at ct 01-, whereby when said upright portions are clamped against the tire d by means of clampingbolts 0 c the tire and rim of the wheel will not be marred hycontact with the angle-irons. The horizontal portions of the angle-irons overlap each other, one being provided with transverse slots f and the other with screws 6 engaging therein, whereby the angle-irons may be laterally adjusted to bring the upright portions to proper distances apart to fit different thicknesses or width of tires or rims. On the horizontal portion of the outside or lower angle-iron may be secured asuitable shoe or slide-plate, as at d. The angle-irons may be long enough in light carriages or wagons to permit of a single runner being clamped to the front and hind wheel on one side of the vehicle; but in heavier vehicles separate runners may be used for each wheel, as shown in the drawings. A number ofholes 70 may be made in the angle-irons to accommodate clamp-bolts c c in securing the runners to wheels of different sizes.

At the front end of each runner is a clamping-bolt g, provided on one side of its head, as at g, with a hook to engage the tire or rim and having a nut h to secure it in engage-' ment therewith. At the ends of the angleirons are provided loops or links, as at t t', to which are secured the lower ends of straps or chains Z Z, the upper ends of which are secured to the running-gear of the vehicle.

By means of the constructions described the runners may be quickly secured in position upon or removed from wheels of different sizes by means of an ordinary wrench and when in position will be rigidly held against accidental displacement.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a runner for attachment to vehiclewheels the combination of two angle-irons forming the main body thereof, the horizontal portions of said angle-irons being overlapped and the upright portions serving to embrace the tire or rim'of the wheel to which 'the runner is to be attached, means for adjusting the irons laterally to set the upright portions at different distances apart, clampbolts for securing the upright portions to the tire, and a hook-bolt for securing the front end of the irons to the wheel, substantially as described.

2. In a runner for attachment to vehiclewheels the combination of two angle-irons forming the main body thereof, the horizontal portions of said angle-irons being overlapped and the upright portions serving to embrace the tire or rim of the wheel to which front end of the irons to the wheel, substanthe runner is to be attached, means for adtially as described. 10 justing the irons laterally to set the upright In testimony whereof I affix my signature portions at different distances apart-clampin presence of two witnesses.

5 bolts for securing the upright portions to the 4 FRITZ GAUDLITZ. tire, links at each end of the irons, straps for \Vitnesses: connecting said links to the running-gear of FRANZ STEPHAN, the vehicle, and a hook-bolt for securing the A. BRAUTIGAM. 

